Outfoxed!

Sixteen fox suspect cards go face down around the edge of the board, and two are turned face up. One of 16 matching thief cards is slipped, unseen, into the clue decoder, a plastic gadget with a sliding window. Each player puts a detective-hat pawn in the middle of the board, and the fox figure waits at the start of its path to the foxhole.

On your turn, you first say out loud what you want to do: search for clues or reveal suspects. Then you roll the three dice up to three times, setting aside any that match. To search you need all three dice showing footprints, and to reveal you need all three showing eyes. If you haven't got them by the third roll, the fox runs three spaces closer to its den.

A successful search lets you move your detective as many spaces as the footprints you rolled. If you land on a paw-print space, you draw a clue marker showing an item such as a piece of clothing, slot it into the decoder and slide it open. The window shows whether the thief is wearing that item, and the team removes any suspects who no longer fit. Revealing simply turns over two more suspect cards to check against the clues already found.

You win by naming the right fox, or by narrowing the suspects down to one and checking it against the thief card in the decoder. You lose if you accuse the wrong fox or if the fox reaches the foxhole first. Once a family finds it easy, the rules suggest making the fox run four or even five spaces after each failed roll.

For a parent, the useful part is the talking. Because it is cooperative, players decide together whether to search or reveal and remind each other which clues have turned up, so a younger child can take part with help instead of falling behind. Gamewright pitches it as practice in paying attention to detail and judging the odds, such as whether to risk one more roll.

Every copy in India is imported. On 5 October 2026 none of the trusted stores we check had Outfoxed!: Toycra, Crossword, Hamleys, Tabletop Universe, Gameistry and Bored Game Company had no listing, and FirstCry's search results could not be read. Board Games India has an Outfoxed! page, filed under 'On demand', but its site blocks automated checks, so its price and stock are unknown. Amazon.in had it as an expensive import.

There is one edition to buy: Gamewright's Outfoxed! (item 418, barcode 0759751004187), in English, with a 2015 copyright in the rulebook. We found no Indian-made or Indian-licensed edition. Bored Game Company's old website once had an Outfoxed! page, but its current site and storefront search showed nothing on 5 October 2026. Gamewright's other cooperative games, such as Forbidden Desert, also reach India as imports, but they are aimed at older children.